About Planning Break Management

This page gives you information about the planning break management and different exceptions in planning break.

This page discusses:

Geometry

Select a geometry to define the physical boundary of the design unit.

A selection is also highlighted in the work area.

Note: If you change the geometry during the design, the old planning breaks will be removed. A message will appear listing the impact of replacing the old geometry by a new.

Status

After selecting the geometry, a list of all the structural objects is displayed in the Name column of the Status tab. The System Status column displays the current status of the object with respect to the selected geometry. You can change the status of the objects using the contextual commands.

  • OUT: Sets the object to be outside a design unit.
    Note: The object is listed under the Excluded Element node in the tree.
  • IN with Planning Break: Sets the object to be inside a design unit with planning breaks.
    • If the status of the object is ACROSS or ON BOUNDARY, it indicates that the planning breaks are defined for the proxy.
    • If the status of the object is OUT or IN, it indicates that the planning break is not defined for the proxy. However, you can define them explicitly.
      Note: If the status of the object is OUT, it will be listed under the Excluded Element node in the tree. If the status of the object is IN, then it will be listed under the Included Element node in the tree.
  • IN fully included: Sets the object inside a design unit. Whatever its status, the proxy has no defined planning break.
  • Reset to system status: Removes all exceptions on this object. The proxy and its planning breaks are removed from the exception management.

The modified status is displayed in the Overridden column.

  • If the status of the parent object (panel) is overridden to IN or OUT, the status of the child object (stiffener) is also overridden to IN or OUT respectively.
  • If you try to override the status of the child object (stiffener) before overriding the status of the parent object (panel), a message appears indicating to override the status of the parent object (panel) before overriding the status of the child object (stiffener).
  • If the parent object (panel) has overridden status as PB and if it is reset to the system status, the overridden status of the child object (stiffener) is also reset to system.
Different filters are available above each column. You can select the required filter in the list to display the required structural objects with particular status and exception.

Filter
In the Filter box, you can enter an alpha-numeric query for filtering the previous query results.
Note: This filter is case sensitive.
No Of Elements
The No Of Elements displays the count of total number of objects filtered to total number of objects available for filtering.
Filter 3D Viewer
Select the Filter 3D Viewer check box to see the filtered result in the 3D area.

Estimate

The Estimate tab contains the following options:

Compute Report
Click Compute Report to generate a report that contains detailed information about plates and profiles.

The computed report is displayed in the area below the Estimate tab.

Note: You can set the unit for weight and CoG at Me > Preferences > Main Preferences > Modeling > Units. For more information, see :Native Apps Preferences Guide: Units.
Click Save Report to save the report locally in .txt format.
Generate Geometries
Select the Generate Geometries check box to generate the graphical representations of the structural elements in the design units.
Export Measures

Click Export Measure to make all properties persistent in the representation of the design unit. Also, a geometrical point is created at the location of the CoG.